Best Songwriters Sayings
113 Songwriters quotes by 94 unique authors
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That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I…
— Margaret Whiting
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... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so…
— Sandra Bernhard
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It's basically a city of songwriters and that's what gives it it's strength, that's what gives it its lasting ability. You've got people making all…
— Emmylou Harris
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Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
— Barry Mann
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I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and…
— Barry McGuire
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I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the…
— Otis Blackwell
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I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around.…
— Otis Blackwell
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Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the…
— Pete Best
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Songwriters tell the truth.
— Kara DioGuardi
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I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to…
— Kina Grannis
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Man, I live in Nashville. I know how good other songwriters and singers are around here. There's a wealth of talent in this town, not…
— Jamey Johnson
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I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.
— Art Alexakis
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Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
— Martin Fry
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I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day.…
— Rico Love
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Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.
— Bjorn Ulvaeus
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I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters…
— Lukas Haas
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For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't…
— Ryan Adams
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This is a turf battle. They are saying, 'The songwriters aren't getting paid.' Baloney. Songwriters are getting paid. They're paid sync rights and (mechanical) rights.…
— Jonathan Potter
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I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing songwriters and recording artists, and so juggling my job…
— Ruta Sepetys
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Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works.…
— Criss Jami
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A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's…
— Paul McCartney
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I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young,…
— Robin Gibb
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I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.
— Roger Daltrey
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All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.
— Steve Earle
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
— Paloma Faith
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